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Poetry

John E Marks
Jun 16, 2021

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Carl Sandburg, writing in the March, 1923, issue of The Atlantic Monthly, made a stab at describing poetry: “ as the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air…. as a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable…. “

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John E Marks
John E Marks

Written by John E Marks

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

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